Improved tire for carriage-wheels



accompanying i drawings.;

UNITED STATE-s i GEORGE SOUTHER, OE. soU'TH EosfroN, MASSACHUSETTS.

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specification formingpart of Imm Patent No1 1i,4a6,'dated Atigust 1,1854.

.To all whom it may concern: V y

Beit known thaty LVGEORGE SoU'rrIER, of South BostonLin the county of' Sulfolk and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented an Improvem ent in the' Tires' of Carriage-Wheels; 'and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and 'exact' description `olf the principle orchara'cter which distinguishes itl from all other things before known and of the usual manner ofl making, modifying, and using .the same, referenceV being had to the Y My invention consists 1n la mode of applying elastic tires to carriage-wheels, ashereirn` after described. The tire a of thewheel is- Y made with two projecting flanges b b all round, leaving a space between them for theelastic tire. An entire ring c of elastic material- `such as Yulcanizedirubber--is `then stretched over the tire a andsprung between-the flanges b b. Asthe .thickness of the elasticmaterial is to be more than theheight of the `project- -ingilangeshe outer periphery of the `ring will project over the outer periphery of the flanges, and ,thereby an elastic tire will be for1ned,`whicl1 can be removed and renewed at pleasure. It serves to keepl the iron tire unimpaired, does not require vrenewing so often comfort and economy of carriages.` t

as the irontire, and contributes greatly to the i For a` pleasure-buggy I make the' tire of' wrought-iron, one and one-'fourth inch wide,

the liange of` the same'ivesixteenths of an.'

inch deep insidel and nine-sixteenths of an inch outside. The space between the two flanges is about oneinch, and the strip of elastic material. is one inch wide and iivef eighths of an inch thick. y A

Iam aware that elastic tires for wheels are not new; and I therefore do not lay claimv to. "elastic tires nor to findia-rubber ,tirestex'g cept in the mode herein set `forth.

What I claim, therefore, as my improve.

v1.V The employment of tires of india-rubber or equivalent'elastic material insertedub'ctween projecting anges and projecting pe-- yond said flanges, inthe ina/nner .and for the ,purposes set forth.

2. Using for` said elastic tires an entirevring to be stretched over and sprung between :the

lianges, in the manner and for 'th'epurposes .set forth. l 2

f VVitnesses:4 s

CALVIN TARBETT,. `Tommi-E CAMPBELL.

GEORGE soU'rHER.` 

